Stan Lee’s The Seekers Contest

Work with the legendary Stan Lee as a writer or artist and win $10, 000? Yes please!

What’s that? You must be a U.S resident. Oh.

Have you ever dreamed of writing or illustrating a comic under the tutelage of the legendary Stan Lee? Well, here’s your chance True Believer! MTV Comics and POW! Entertainment are offering you the chance to write or illustrate the digital graphic novel “The Seekers!”

Over the next 3 weeks we’ll be accepting submissions from artists and writers for an opportunity to earn approximately $10,000.00 to do just that. You read that right, that’s 10-Gs.

In order to enter you’ll need to read the complete set of official rules, but here are the highlights of the contest:

● Submissions will be open for three weeks, closing on August 26, 2011
● ARTISTS will submit five (5) black and white pages of sequential comic art based on a scene from “The Seekers”
● WRITERS will write ten (10) pages of comic script and a two (2) page treatment for the series based on Stan’s treatment
● Submissions will be narrowed down by the MTV Comics editorial staff to the top 20 semi-finalists in each category; that’s 20 writers, and 20 artists
● Semi-finalists will be voted on by the public beginning on September 5, 2011
● The top 5 vote-getters in each category will be forwarded on to Stan Lee, who will hand select the winners
● Winners will be presented the opportunity to write or illustrate MTV Comics’ The Seekers (and earn approximately 10k)

Details here.

Grant Morrison Interview

Comics Alliance has a pretty revealing interview with writer Grant Morrison about his work on Batman Incorporated, films and his upcoming work on the rebooted Action Comics, in which we’ll see a new, inexperienced Superman.

With Action Comics, we’re certainly dealing with a Superman that doesn’t have his parents anymore. Both Ma and Pa Kent are dead in this version, and it’s kind of like the original Superman where you saw him standing over their graves in the same way that Batman did and vowing to always fight for the right. He’s kind of a lot more isolated in that sense, even though he’s not a brooding or inward-turning character like Batman is.

Catch the whole interview here.

X-Men and FF in November

Marvel released two teasers today. Here they are.

X-MEN: REGENESIS – UNCANNY X-MEN!

UNCANNY X-MEN #1

Written by KIERON GILLEN
Art & Cover by CARLOS PACHECO

ON SALE NOVEMBER 2011

FOUR

Coming November 2011.

Hmmm..it doesn’t say Fantastic Four, and Johnny Storm is dead, so who knows what this will be. I guess we’ll find out when the November solicitations are released next month.

Sweet Inspiration

Photo, and coffee, taken by me while on holiday in Sydney. We don’t have Starbucks in Perth, or Krispy Kreme either. We have lovely weather though.